424 S Walnut St
Bloomington, IN 47401
USA
Players Pub Spoken Word Series
Presented by Writers Guild at Bloomington
Featuring Andrew Hubbard (poetry), Tom Bitters (fiction), and Antonia Matthew (poetry) Music by Kyle Quass
There will also be an open mic.
$5 cover (can be added to your tab).
In the course of growing up and then trying to keep food on the table, Andrew Hubbard has lived in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Washington DC, Maryland, North Carolina, Nebraska, Indiana, and Texas. He glories in his family, his home in the woods of Nashville, Indiana, his wife’s incomparable cooking, and his genius for procrastination. He is currently unemployed full-time as a poet. He frequently considers giving it up to become a productive member of society, but never gets around to it.
Tom Bitters has written fiction since fifth grade when he produced a short note, supposedly from his mother, explaining why he should be allowed to watch the seventh game of the World Series that afternoon. Since then, he has published stories in journals such as The Berkshire Review, Hampshire Life, Peninsular, and “Meat” for Tea. He moved to Bloomington in 2013 from Moscow, where he taught English to Russian children who mostly wanted to know why all Americans own guns. He serves on the Board of the Friends of the Monroe County Public Library and volunteers in the VITAL program there, tutoring ESL learners. His plan is to live long enough to see the IU football team play in the Rose Bowl again.
Antonia Matthew grew up in England during World War II and has lived in Bloomington since 1968. Since 1984 she has been member of Five Women Poets, who have put out three chapbooks and a CD of their work. She has been published in various magazines, NIMROD, WIND, and INDIANA REVIEW among them. Her work is also included in the anthologies A LINEN WEAVE OF BLOOMINGTON POETS and CELEBRATING SEVENTY. She has written a play, HOMEFRONT, which is built around the letters that she received from her father when he was fighting in Burma in WWII. It has had one staged reading. She’s written a novel that she shows to no one, and is currently working with memoir and flash fiction.
Kyle Quass is and has been a professional student, soldier, jazz musician, database administrator, and data architect among many other things. He holds a MM in Jazz studies from Indiana University. He has studied, played, and/or collaborated with David Baker, Joe Henderson, Greg Osby, Mulgrew Miller, Tyshawn Sorey and Cory Smythe. He has presented at multiple conferences including Oracle Open World, Indiana Oracle Users Group, and the Higher Education Data Warehousing conference. He has performed on numerous and varied recordings, from David Baker to Amy Stephens to Murder By Death. He has more than a half dozen recordings under his own name, most of which can be found and purchased at https://kylequass.bandcamp.com/. His most recent recordings under his own name are DARKNESS MADE OF LIGHT and RISE AGAINST, both recorded in August 2017.